Author: hipodrome
Mark du Mosch – Bay 25 [DKMNTL014]
Mark du Mosch is a Rotterdam based producer and DJ who has earned the highest amount of respect in the Dutch alternative music scene in the past couple of years. The reason is simple: he dares to go beyond the obvious, his raw yet emotional signature sound being distinctive, versatile and stunningly creative. Expect perfectly executed analogue bliss from a craftsman who is slowly yet steadily making his way into the records bags of global house and techno connoisseurs. From Russia with love; Moscow based cult producer Gesloten Cirkel kicks it up a notch with his rough-and-ready take on ‘Living Up’. Wailing synths, piston hi-hats and an everything but straight-to-the-point bassline make for an epic esoteric house jam.
DJ Stingray / Vin Sol – Assassin / Edges Of A Vortex [UTTUBONUS003]
DJ Stingray drops one of his most intense electro bangers to date, ‘Assassin’. No holds barred minimal, industrial-tinted and ghetto-ready electro for the dance floor! On the flip Vin Sol’s San Fran ‘Homo-House’ anthem ‘Edges of a Vortex’ receives a vinyl pressing after setting the underground alight, having since been picked up by Defected records and reworks of Sade and SooWavey 12″s selling out in minutes.
Innershades – That Girl [WICKEDBASS011]
That Girl, produced by Innershades, opens with a repeated voice sample and a nostalgic pad, just to drop one minute later into one of the rawest hard hitting house tracks you’ll see around in a while. Hotflush’s Locked Groove gives the original track an acidic twist halved with his signature top-class deep house production skills. As if that isn’t enough, the B-side is followed by a simple-yet-effective remix from Ukraine’s very own Vakula who provides what seems a purely energetic techno cut right up to the point when the killer snare comes in.
DJ TLR – Zombies Ate My Ghost Producer (FACT MIX 413)
Romansoff – Raw Tools 3 [RWT003]
More heavy hitting analog club tracks by the man from Bucharest! Proper house tools that will bring joy worldwide.
Chésus aka Earl Jeffers – Decisions [4LUX1307]
Cardiff’s best kept secret Chesus debuts on 4lux with a release of his own. 4 strong deep house tracks. Cleverly combining the old with the new, Chesus shows his amazing production skills once again. The single features collaborations with fellow Cardiff producers Kofi Tarris and, of course, The Organ Grinder with whom he previously released the club banger Steam Roller.
Bicep – Satisfy EP [FMB002]
Bicep are back with the second release on their eponymous Feel My Bicep label. FMB002 features three tracks pushing into a synth driven direction in comparison to earlier releases. “Satisfy” features melodic pads, leads and a breakbeat heavily indebted to 80s freestyle and Baltimore club. “Snackbar” takes a much tougher line, with a subtly growling and grinding bass underpinning its menacing chords reflecting their recent more techno heavy sets. “The Final Trip” is deep into late night Belfast territory, keeping it true to the classic pairing of jackin’ 909 and juno 60 live through the whole track.
Nick Beringer – Downtown Grooves [MHYH001]
MyHouse YourHouse as a philosophy, a way to canalize beats from around the world, sharing with each others. Based in Berlin Nick Beringer is an amazing music producer with fresh ideas, decapitating hi hats and thick basslines, accompanied by a catchy Synth. Proper dancefloor house beats for our very first release.
Benedikt Frey – LWE Podcast 184
Carlos Nilmmns – B.l.u.e. [LAXC003]
For this new release serie, we decided to bring you guys a regular member of the crew & one fo the most talented producer : Carlos Nilmmns. Indeed, the man is back on Skylax. The Scottish producers skills again ranging from soundtrack to dirty machine funk. Songs such as “Brooklyn Walk” and “Moments Of Happiness” demonstrate time and time again why many critics are calling him the next Lalo Schifrin. “Raw Tape Cuts” and “I Thought I Had You” take things onto the dance floor. The listener is greeted by a healthy range of classic machine workouts and Nilmmns signature old school technique’s. “Gwen’s Song” captures moments of Paris and the good times. “Soul patrol” track contains elegant synth work and beautiful live keys which kind of reminds one of Drexciya or music from The other peoples place. “106” shows hardware programming at its finest with lush sounds creating warm fuzzy moments perfect for the warm weather.
Nicholas – The Music Lives [HOMETAPING017]
Home Taping favorite Nicholas returns with another heavy-duty release for the label. Warehouse style cuts dripping in atmosphere and dance floor edge are what this EP is all about. Sweaty, tracky, looped up, raw, and of course perfect for the dance floor.
DJ Fett Burger & DJ Speckgurtel – Speckbass [UFO008]
Sex Tags once again delivering house music with that spirit, soul and funk from DJ Fett Burger & DJ Speckgurtel.
Kuba Sojka – You Can’t Take It EP [DOGM1203]
Some serious tracks on the new Dogmatik! Produced by Kuba Sojka, a young producer and musician from Mystowice, Poland. With releases already on Matrix records and Mathematics, demonstrating his techno and house inspired sound, he continues the theme here with the ‘You Can’t Take It EP’. Delivering three tracks of Chicago and Detroit inspired grooves to round off another quality release on the Dogmatik label.
Ross 154 @ Boiler Room, ADE (Amsterdam) 19.10.2013
John Heckle – Desolate Figures [TABR022]
Two years after his last full-length titled ‘Second Son’, which was out on Jamal Moss‘s Mathematics label, John Heckle has returned with his second album ‘Desolate Figures’ for Tabernacle Records. ‘Desolate Figures’ revolves around vintage-tinged Detroit techno, gritty Chicago house and experimental hybrids of the aforementioned genres, with the overall result sounding deliciously and uncompromisingly nasty. The album opens with a wonderfully warped slab of Detroitish techno in the form of ‘Blindman’s Bluff’, a track deeply rooted in spacey synth and string structures that gradually transforms into a superb dancefloor track. From that point on, Heckle continues to present his broad view on house and techno across a set of track that seem to stray away from pre-fabricated song patterns, instead drawing on more abstract and less rigid textures. This ethos gives the LP as a whole a very personal and organic touch, as if it were recorded in a single take while creativity and intuition were peaking. Tracks such as the emotive ‘Inhuman Nature’, ‘Something For Your Distorted Mind’, and the acid-driven, Legowelt-esque ‘Never With You’ are all examples of Heckle’s signature blend of flowing melodics and raspy rhythms, while the industrial and very minimal ‘Love-Lies’ and the nervously rattling ‘Crazy Metal’ add a dash of experimental flavors to the LP. Its diverse content and overall DIY-attitude turn ‘Desolate Figures’ in a somewhat unorthodox package, but if you don’t shy away from experimental house and techno (or if you’re just a fan of the Crème Organization and Tabernacle labels in general), then you simply can’t afford to miss out on this one.
Conforce – Kinetic Image [102DSR]
Boris Bunnik has finished his third full-length album as Conforce. Entitled ‘Kinetic Image’, the ten-track album is the sound of Conforce producing without the dancefloor in mind. It’s the sound of him moving away from the past and into the present. The album has very much been designed to be heard in one sitting, as a complete experience that moves away from regimented 4/4 beats and into slower, more surreptitious tempos. The result is an all consuming sonic journey of intriguing and inspiring sounds that range from full on cerebral excursions into vast open spaces that throb invitingly (Scientific Trajectory) to underwater daydreams that suspend you deep in an ocean as various mycobacterial details float by. There’s also more industrial sounding fair that depicts a desolate warehouse in perennial decay (Semantic Field) and mysterious echo chambers that spread out all around you as celestial light beams and haunting melodic ripples gently float by as per the excellent Temporary Reversals.
Magic Mountain High – Tiny Breadcrumbs [OMR002]
Latest release from the collaborative project between Move D. & Juju & Jordash. Deep and refined techno tracks.
VA – Alternativ 01 [WRR030]
Shortly after his debut vinyl album in late October, Patrik Skoog comes with another techno track on his own label We Are Records, accompanied by three new favorites on the scene. Tapirus aka Charlton lives in Rotterdam is first. R_L out of Hong Kong contributes to the Ep with his “Chaotic Bliss”, a forceful track drenched in reverb, echoing metal throbs and resonating lustful timbres. Atimpuri finishes off the Ep with his lush track “So Edo”, we have been secretly making people dance to this one for a little while now and are excited to finally have this pressed on vinyl.
Floorplan – Phobia [MPM017]
MPM17 comprises two brand new Floorplan tracks, Phobia and Glory B plus a remix of album cut ‘Higher!’ by Ben Sims. The opener, ‘Phobia’ is a driving, funk-fuelled track. An unrelenting looped jam that immediately sets the tone for another stunning M-Plant release. Solid peak time techno tracks.
